Editing Jon Hassell (section)

==Life and career==
Born in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], United States,<ref name="ankeny" /> Hassell received his [[master's degree]] from the [[Eastman School of Music]] in [[Rochester, New York]]. During this time he became involved in European [[Serialism|serial music]], especially the work of [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], and so after finishing his studies at Eastman, he enrolled in the Cologne Course for New Music (founded and directed by Stockhausen) for two years, where he met [[Irmin Schmidt]] and [[Holger Czukay]], who would later go on to form [[Can (band)|Can]]. Hassell returned to the U.S. in 1967, where he met [[Terry Riley]] in [[Buffalo, New York]], and performed on the first recording of Riley's seminal work ''[[In C]]'' in 1968. He pursued his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[musicology]] in Buffalo and performed in [[La Monte Young]]'s [[Theatre of Eternal Music]] in [[New York City]], contributing to the 1974 LP ''[[Dream House 78' 17"]]''.

On his return to Buffalo in the early 1970s, Hassell was introduced to the music of Indian [[Pran Nath (musician)|Pandit Pran Nath]], a specialist in the [[Kirana gharana|Kiranic]] style of singing. Hassell, Young, [[Marian Zazeela]], and Riley went together to India to study with Nath. His work with Nath awoke his appetite for traditional musics of the world, and on the album ''[[Vernal Equinox (album)|Vernal Equinox]]'', he used his trumpet (treated with various electronic effects) to imitate the vocal techniques to which Nath had exposed him. He stated:

:"From 1973 up until then I was totally immersed in playing [[raga]] on the trumpet. I wanted the physical dexterity to be able to come into a room and be able to do something that nobody else in the world could do. My aim was to make a music that was vertically integrated in such a way that at any cross-sectional moment you were not able to pick a single element out as being from a particular country or genre of music."<ref name="prendergast">{{cite web |first=Mark J. |last=Prendergast |title=Sound on Sound |url=http://www.jonhassell.com/soundon.html |work=Jonhassell.com |access-date=11 August 2009 |archive-date=14 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114214058/http://www.jonhassell.com/soundon.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1980, he collaborated with [[Brian Eno]] on the album ''[[Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics]]'' and appeared on the Eno-produced Talking Heads album ''[[Remain in Light]]''. The same year Hassell also performed solo at the [[Mudd Club]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Boch|first=Richard|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/972429558|title=The Mudd Club|publisher=[[Feral House]]|year=2017|isbn=978-1-62731-051-2|location=Port Townsend, WA|pages=341|language=English|oclc=972429558}}</ref> Plans had been made with Eno and David Byrne for the three of them to team up for what became "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," but the plan fell through when Hassell didn't agree with the direction the tracks were taking. His 1981 release, ''[[Dream Theory in Malaya]]'', led to a performance at the first [[World of Music, Arts and Dance]] (WOMAD) Festival, organized by [[Peter Gabriel]]. He performed and co-wrote tracks on [[David Sylvian]]'s first solo album ''[[Brilliant Trees]]'', and its instrumental EP follow-up ''[[Words with the Shaman]]''. In the late 1980s, Hassell contributed to Gabriel's ''[[Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ|Passion]]'', the soundtrack album for [[Martin Scorsese]]'s film, ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]''. Hassell and Pete Scaturro composed the electronic theme music for the television show ''[[The Practice]]''.
In 1989, Hassell contributed to the [[Tears for Fears]] album ''[[The Seeds of Love]]''.

Hassell died from natural causes on June 26, 2021, at the age of 84.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pescovitz |first1=David |title=Jon Hassell, pioneering electronic musician, RIP |url=https://boingboing.net/2021/06/26/jon-hassell-pioneering-electronic-musician-rip.html |access-date=27 June 2021 |work=[[Boing Boing]] |date=2021-06-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=JON HASSELL, SONIC EXPLORER |url=https://vinylconnection.com.au/2021/06/27/jon-hassell-sonic-explorer/ |publisher=Vinyl Connection |access-date=27 June 2021 |language=en |date=2021-06-27}}</ref> He had had health issues over the course of the previous year.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yoo |first1=Noah |title=Jon Hassell, Influential Avant-Garde Composer, Dies at 84 |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/jon-hassell-dies-at-84/ |website=Pitchfork |date=26 June 2021 |publisher=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |access-date=27 June 2021}}</ref>